Heather Morris hails from a somewhat familiar New Zealand upbringing in a small rural community, part of a large family surrounded by several generations, excelling in sports, doing okay at school, and devouring information and stories. Heather indulged in her passion for writing with a scriptwriting course while raising a family and working as a social worker at a medical centre in Melbourne. Then, in 2003, she was introduced to Lale Sokolov, and the rest is history! It is a meeting that resulted in a screenplay and, secondly, in a book on Lale’s story known as The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018). She has since published three more Holocaust novels, and her latest book, Sisters Under the Rising Sun (2023), is set in a Japanese POW camp in Indonesia in World War II.

Heather is in conversation with Michael Brissenden.

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